"It would be difficult to sum up 'Melomaniacs' in a phrase. Never did a book, in my opinion at any rate, exhibit greater contrasts, not, perhaps, of strength and weakness, but of clearness and obscurity. It is inexplicably uneven, as if the writer were perpetually playing on the boundary line that divides sanity of thought from intellectual chaos. There is method in the madness, but it is a method of intangible ideas. Nevertheless, there is genius written over a large portion of it, and to a musician the wealth of musical imagination is a living spring of thought." --HAROLD E. GORST, in _London Saturday Review_ (Dec. 8,1906). * * * * * VISIONARIES 12mo. $1.50 net "In 'The Spiral Road' and in some of the other stories both fantasy and narrative may be compared with Hawthorne in his most unearthly moods. The younger man has read his Nietzsche and has cast off his heritage of simple morals. Hawthorne's Puritanism finds no echo in these modern souls, all sceptical, wavering, and unblessed. But Hawthorne's splendor of vision and his power of sympathy with a tormented mind do live again in the best of Mr. Huneker's stories." --_London Academy_ (Feb. 3, 1906). * * * * * ICONOCLASTS: A Book of Dramatists 12mo. $1.50 net "His style is a little jerky, but it is one of those rare styles in which we are led to expect some significance, if not wit, in every sentence." --G. K. CHESTERTON, in _London Daily News_. * * * * * MEZZOTINTS IN MODERN MUSIC 12mo. $1.50 net "Mr. Huneker is, in the best sense, a critic; he listens to the music and gives you his impressions as rapidly and in as few words as possible; or he sketches the composers in fine, broad, sweeping strokes with a magnificent disregard for unimportant details. And as Mr. Huneker is, as I have said, a powerful personality, a man of quick brain and an energetic imagination, a man of moods and temperament--a string that vibrates and sings in response to music--we get in these essays of his a distinctly original and very valuable contribution to the world's tiny musical literature." --J. F. RUNCIMAN, in _London Saturday Review_. * * * * * FRANZ LISZT _WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS_ 12mo. $2.00 net * * * * * CHOPIN: The Man and His Music 12mo. $2.00 net * * * * * OVERTONES: A Book of Temperaments _WITH FRONTISPIECE PORTRAIT OF RICHARD STRAUSS_ 12mo. $1.50 net "In some respects Mr. Huneker must be reckoned the most brilliant of all living writers on matters musical." --_Academy, London_. * * * * *